Beach, Boys, Love, and Drama

Chapter 4

We sat our stuff down and made our way to the lazy river, where the boys were. They were all on yellow tube floats. Lilly ran over to where Will was. She jumped on Will almost flipping them over. When they were balanced again, they looked at each other than burst out laughing. We all just shook our heads, and laughed at how cute and crazy they are.

I grabbed a float, and got into it. Everyone grabbed a float and got on it. Then we all linked our floats together and started moving as the water carried us. Nate, one of Will's friends, was holding my feet. Of course I got stuck holding Cayden's feet. They didn't smell bad, which was a good thing. But touching any part of him made me get butterflies in my stomach.

He must have seen me smelling his feet because he said. "My feet don't stink." I was about to say something, but he cut me off. "And no I don't have any kind of foot disease."

"Just checking. You never know." I defended my strange actions. He just laughed in response.

When we went around once, Cayden got off. So now I was in the back. Half way around I flipped over. When I resurfaced, Cayden was laughing so hard he was crying.

'Ha-ha! Very funny." I said mocking him, while glaring at him. I got on my back and started floating. I had my eyes closed, so I didn't know that there was a tube in front of me. I soon figured out though when I ran into it.

I stood up quickly and looked around to see everyone laughing. I guess they waited on me.

"Two Team race!" Jamie shouted.

Cayden picked me up bridal style. "I call Max!"

"Put me down." He did, he sat me in my tube.

Everybody got a partner. They got into their tubes, and we all turned to face our partners. I was turned backwards, Cayden was facing forward. My feet were in the handles on his tube, and his feet were in my handles. We both have to paddle with our hands.

We lined up and got ready. "Go!" Jamie yelled.

We paddled as fast as we could, but it was hard steering. We ran into the sides several times. We passed everybody except for Will and Lilly. We were side by side, about to finish.

"Faster! Faster!" Cayden yelled. We went faster and started passing them up.

"Come on Lilly!" Will yelled trying to steer around a corner. They ran into the side of the pool, which caused them to turn backwards. Which made Will facing backwards and Lilly forward.

Because they were trying to start paddling again, and faster. We were able to completely pass them up. I could see where we were supposed to finish. Only a couple more seconds of paddling, and we will win.

"We won!" We yelled at the same time. The people around us looked at us like we belonged in a mental institute. They were probably right. As soon as we passed the finish line, a palm tree. We jumped of our tubes and started dancing.

Will and Lilly floated over to us, and a minute later the others came.

"So what do we get?" I asked them. "Please say food." I crossed my fingers, hoping they would give me a free meal or drink.

"Sure, food is fine." Will said.

"But let's stay here for a little longer." Lilly told us.

"Alright." We all agreed.

They all went in different directions. Soon it was just Cayden and me standing there.

"Do you mind if I hang out with you?" Cayden asked me.

"No, it's fine." Why did I just say? This is a bad idea. But my stupid mouth already said yes. Oh well I guess it can't hurt to spend a little time with him. Get to know him, find out if he really is a heartless player.